Toshiba and Alpine bring Toshiba’s know-how in image processing and IoT technologies, and Alpine’s satellite navigation knowledge and GPS location technology, to an industrial drone business dedicated to inspection services for electrical infrastructure. The new project aims to start operation in fiscal 2017.

Toshiba Corporation has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" on comprehensive collaboration in the postal and logistics automation systems business in Russia.

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TDK Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have agreed to establish a joint venture, TDK Automotive Technologies Corporation, that will engage in the development, manufacture and sales of automotive inverters for hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles.

Toshiba Hydro Power (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., its Chinese subsidiary for the manufacture, sales and maintenance of hydroelectric equipment, has completed the supply and commissioning tests of the equipment for the Qingyuan Pumped Storage Power Station in China, which started commercial operation of the last unit on August 20.

Toshiba Corporation today concluded a memorandum of understanding with Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development on a comprehensive partnership in geothermal power that will see the parties collaborate in power generation projects, including personnel development.

Kenya Power and Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited (TTDI) , subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on implementation of a pilot project aimed at decreasing distribution losses in the national grid.

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Toshiba participates in the Japan Fair at TICAD VI, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development 2016 that will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center. Exhibits at Japan Fair will showcase Toshiba’s ability to provide total energy solutions that ‘Make Energy”, “Transmit and Store Energy” and realize the “Smart Use of Energy”.

Toshiba JSW Power Systems Private Ltd., has marked a major advance in its continuing program to offer customers state-of-the-art power generations solutions: shipment of its first made-in-India steam turbine generator for Unit 2 of the Kudgi Coal-fired Super-critical Thermal Power Station in Karnataka state in south-west India.

Toshiba Corporation has completed the world's first commercial-use carbon capture and utilization (CCU) system constructed in a municipal waste incineration plant, in Saga Japan. The CCU system will start operation from August 26 and will capture 10-tons of carbon dioxide a day from the flue gas of the incinerator.

Toshiba Corporation has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Office Djiboutien de eveloppement de l'Energie Geothermique (ODDEG), the government organization responsible for developing Djibouti’s geothermal power capabilities, that envisages a comprehensive collaboration in the geothermal power generation business.

Toshiba Corporation has won an order to supply a pure hydrogen fuel cell to Tokuyama Corporation, a Tokyo-based chemical company. This is the first order for Toshiba’s 100kW pure hydrogen fuel cell, and delivery is scheduled for February 2017.

Toshiba Corporation has been awarded a contract by Thailand’s Gunkul Engineering Public Co. Ltd. to construct a mega-solar power plant in Kimitsu, Chiba prefecture, Japan. The plant, scheduled to commence operation by March 2019, will have a power generation capacity of roughly 33.5-megawatts. The contract has a total value of 9 billion yen.

Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the latest generation of its BiCS FLASH three-dimensional flash memory with a stacked cell structure, a 64-layer device that will be first in the world to start sample shipments today. The new device incorporates 3-bit-per-cell (TLC) technology and achieves a 256-gigabit capacity, an advance that underscores the potential of Toshiba’s proprietary architecture.

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Toshiba Corporation , Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc. and 11 other entities have been selected to carry out a major five-year project to promote clean energy generation, the “Demonstration of Sustainable CCS Technology Project” sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.